6/29/08

Calcalistreports that the Israeli-French-Russian billionaire Arcadi Gaydamak has started a blog. The report notes that the effort coincides with Gaydamak's political aspirations via his Social Justice party.

Naturally expected on any blog, certainly an Israeli political blog in Hebrew, numerous comments on Gaydamak's posts raise pointed issues: some question that he wrote the posts based on the premise that his Hebrew is weak, some attack him for his checkered past and some question the sincerity with which he presents himself as an Israeli political Robin Hood (as cited: "גאידמק שמנסה למכור את עצמ איזשהו מושיע, רובין הוד ממש").

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